Re: Alan Walker Read. Wordsmith. RIP

: Alan Walker Read died on 16th October aged 96. He was the man
who, among many other things, traced the first use of 'OK' back
to the Boston Morning Post in 1839. His obituary appeared in today's
Times. It's available on-line for the next few days. Link below.

I think ESC posted that previously under 'OK guy dies'. In that
and previous reports of Walker's work I've never been clear what
he actually determined the source of OK to be. To quote from ESC's
posting - "Old Kinderhook and oll korrect have long been the first
accepted sources for the word." Does anyone know whether he was
able to determine which?